After many years of delay, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established a panel to determine whether or not human stem cell research will be funded out of their pocket. Though research has been continuing in this field throughout the Bush Administration, its impact was severely limited.
As we have noted before, President Obama almost [...]

The big news today was all about Obama’s repudiation of the policies the Bush administration took towards stem cell research and other scientific contributions to government. Though there is some criticism that this administration should be focusing on new technological breakthroughs that synthetically create ’stem cells’ without human embryos, it is very likely that Obama [...]

Forbes had a characteristically thoughtful piece last week naming ten things Obama could accomplish with an executive order that would help the market out. Our energy policy is one thing the Bush administration worked hard to influence; Obama could choose to regulate our alternative and standard energy sources. A few specific sectors the author specifically [...]

We think we know how the current administration perceives stem research. Bush vetoed the Embryonic Stem Cell Bill denying funding for it once again.
Both Senators Obama and Clinton can smell the roses on this one.
Obama issued a statement as follows:
“By vetoing funding for stem cell research once again, the President is deferring the hopes [...]